Serious question: what is stopping you?
Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
MasterNerd@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Man I wish I lived in the EU
amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world 1 day ago
stoly@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s not a simple thing. You really need some personal tie like ancestry or marriage, go to a university, or be sponsored for work.
amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t think that’s true. Granted I am from here but just to come and start to work us citizens find it way easier than other nationals. Take it in small steps. Most countries allow you to apply for citizenship after 5 years. You just have to find work and accommodation. Some countries do require proof of ancestry like Ireland but there are many others that dont. Some even have free universities like the Nederland or Germany and they teach in English.
I may not know all the subtleties so don’t quote me on that!
DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Unies are usually not free for non-citizens. At least not where I live.
Sunflier@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Right? The ecconomic benefits, the lack of financial catastrophy from suffering a paper cut, living wages, the political stability. It must be like waking up every day in a dream.
p0358@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Unfortunately the combined forces of US and Russian propaganda machines try very hard to ruin it for us, and they see some success in depleting EU membership support in polls and various political unrests
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
“Politic stability”
Hahaha…Good joke…
To be fair, it isnt as bad in the USA but you can’t really say it is really stable. The far right and conservatives are getting stronger and the left/right trench is getting bigger
Damage@feddit.it 1 day ago
The US is exceptionally stable. Their current administration has been demolishing their country for an year and they’re still in power, with support from the other branches of government.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Having lived in a couple of countries in Europe, from The Netherlands which has Proportional Vote system and a thus a multitude of small parties to Britain with a First Past The Post system like the US and thus pretty much a Two Party System, I’ve concluded that at least in Politics stability is just like standing water - it invariably turns into a swamp.
We need some amount of constant change to bring up and flush out the rot that innevitably accumulates in the murky waters of a system were power is always in the hands of a subset of people who are all in the same social circles, went to the same schools and whose sons and daughters marry each other.
Not “Daily Revolution”, just regular change so that any funny business going on outside the public eye risks being brought to light, destroyed and the guilty people punished because power has changed has to people who aren’t mates of the crooks that did it.
dan@upvote.au 1 day ago
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
We may don’t get multi 6-figure jobs, but we also don’t have to pay 5-figures to visit a healthcare place and fear for our lives by being at will employed. And the CoL is probably also way lower in comparison.
I’d rather continue living here than in USA
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
More money ≠ more purchasing power
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah but we pay way less for housing and health.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
At least in Europe housing is at the moment proportionally to incomes just as bad as in the US.
Totally agree on Health, though.
Damage@feddit.it 1 day ago
In my country the vast majority of people can’t afford to live alone, because housing’s too expensive for a single person. It has always been so, traditionally you lived with your parents until you got married, then with your families’ help you’d get somewhere to live, if you were well off enough they’d help you start a mortgage, etc.
Nowadays families can’t set aside that kind of savings anymore, for the most part, so the help they can provide is severely reduced.
Shit was rough for Millennials, I have no idea how Gen-Z’ers manage, as it seems to be even worse now.
Sunflier@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Right. The Weimar Republic had their population making substantially more cash than at any point.
oce@jlai.lu 1 day ago
It’s true for software engineering because the salaries in NA are insane due to the insane profits those companies are making. But for the average job, life is better.
Fokeu@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
We generally pay less